Eclipse Communication Framework (ECF)
ECF plugins will be built in Java and will be portable to any platform supported by Eclipse. For components that might not run on Eclipse (e.g. servers), all ECF-created code will be built to depend only upon pure Java Standard Edition (1.4+). We also will look to support OSGI Foundation as a minimum runtime platform.
You will need the following already installed on your machine:
java version "1.4.2_04"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_04-b05)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_04-b05, mixed model